Episode 81 – Would You Like Some Content with Your Technical Difficulties?

This episode was a complete mess, but not for you to listen to. Allow me to explain. First, we are joined by our old friend AJ of “Kill AJ” fame. This leads to our pre-recording conversation becoming a completely random mess that I really wish we could have recorded. Then we have a bit of listener feedback, which we always appreciate. Hint hint!

Then there’s some news. The Xbox 360 Live Arcade game, Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers, is coming out soon, and the list of Achievements has been released, so I spend a couple minutes going over that. Then Mike gets all giddy about the latest Rules Update that happened a couple weeks ago, and he goes over the various functional changes from this update. Believe it or not, this is actually interesting enough to pay attention to. To follow along yourself, go here:

Then there’s this bit of news about Planechase, which sounds like a new Vanguard-ish type of thing. Whatever it may be, we’re going over the press release with a fine-tooth comb. Actually it’s a shoeshine brush, but whatever. To follow along yourself again, go here:

Then I have a bit of Magic-playing news about my trip to Newport News, VA for Mother’s Day. My cousin took me to a cyber cafe/card-playing location called Cyberwocky where I did lots of trading and was involved in a pickup Emperor game, something that is completely unheard of around here. It was great, so I talk about it.

Then we wanted to hit some of the high points of Alara Reborn, and this is where things started to fall apart. Brian suddenly realized that he had to go. Then Mike suddenly and involuntarily left us. While he was trying to get back, the rest of us soldiered on. He finally returned to us, sans some of his enthusiasm (not a word you’d usually associate with Mike, but he had a big Rules Update to go over this episode), and the episode ended shortly thereafter.

The real problems came when I tried to put this show together. Four and a half minutes of footage were covered in the horrible clicks that I only sort of managed to remove. I love you guys so much that I recorded a quick apology right before that part. Then the freaking edited-completely-except-for-music file decided it didn’t want to save properly and I had to do it all over again. And then I had serious troubles getting the music for this episode to include both left and right stereo channels when I copied it over. But I eventually figured it out. As I write this, I should have been in the bed 45 minutes ago, but I wanted it all ready to upload tomorrow before we record the next show. That’s how much I love you guys. Sleep is not as important as getting the episode out sometime before we record the next one, you know?